Minors

Leadership

Regardless of formal position or title, people can be influential; they can be leaders. The minor in leadership challenges students with a rigorous, values-based, mission-driven curriculum that blends conceptual learning, experiential learning and reflection to foster leadership competence.

Minor Requirements

Requirements for Leadership Minor

This six-course minor includes an ethics course, Organizational Behavior, a leadership sequence (two courses) and one elective that deals with social issues/problems of today:

MGMT2211 Leadership: Person and Process

MGMT2307 Organizational Behavior

MGMT3211 Leadership at Work

ENGL1205 Introduction to Literacy Methods And

ENGL1502 Introduction to Communication, Media and Cultural Studies Or

PERF1111 Public Speaking: Voice and Diction

PHIL1207 Ethics at Work Or

PHIL1115 Recent Moral Issues Or

PHIL2106 Ethical Theory

Elective: A service-learning course or other course dealing with a contemporary social problem or issues of public policy:

BIOL2115 Determinants of Health and Disease

CHEM2113 Chemistry of Boston Waterways

ECON3105 Money and Financial Markets

ECON3113 Economics of Health Care

ECON3115 Economics and the Environment

ENGL2309 The Haves and the Have-Nots: American Authors on Money, Class and Power

LANG2415 Spanish at Work in the Community

MGMT3110 Management Research for Positive Change

PHIL1205 Health Care Ethics

POLSC2603 Problems of Law and Society

POLSC3209 Public Policy, the Law and Psychology

PSYCH2405 Health Psychology

SOC2105 Race, Ethnicity and Group Relations

SOC2123 Health Care: Systems, Structures and Cultures

SOC2127 Social Class and Inequality

THRS2130 Catholic Social Teaching (Cross-referenced with SOC2131)

Career Paths

The leadership minor enables students to both learn about leadership theories and concepts, while also examining and developing their own leadership behaviors. As this minor is interdisciplinary, it is a valuable complement to any Emmanuel major, as students will be able to apply leadership concepts to their specific discipline, allowing graduates to relate their experience directly to their careers after college.